"To be from Lewiston, to be Franco from Lewiston, is to know that nobody is rooting for you. You draw your strength from within, from your family, from your community - if you’re so lucky. My grandmother says to me “I feel like I’ve already died,” as I help her into bed from her wheelchair, and re-tape her leg, butchered in surgery. Soon enough, she too will pass. I set out to rediscover my ancestors, passed before her - to beg their favor. Only Silence answers. I am home. --------------- Farwell is a document of the city of Lewiston, Maine (USA) - an early textile mill city in New England, where all of the industry that used to sustain the town and its population has shuttered - leaving an odd, hollowed out town surrounded by farm land. My family is French-Canadian American, we were the largest ethnic group to emigrate to the city, and still make up the bulk of the population, but over time we became heavily acculturized, and the idea of a Franco-American identity has largely been lost. Farwell explores the life, death, rebirth of a city and culture - and the places between those states.